In testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the president, Cecile Richards, faced off against conservative lawmakers who are seeking to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood after videos released by anti-abortion activists purported to show officials from the health group trying to sell fetal tissue. It was her first appearance before Congress since the issue exploded in July.

The appearance by Ms. Richards before the House committee underscored a broader fight between the parties over Planned Parenthood as the clock ticks on a government shutdown that will begin on Thursday if a stopgap spending bill cannot be passed. While the funding fight is ostensibly about abortion and fetal tissue, the subtext is politics: Republicans perceive Planned Parenthood as a well-oiled, well-funded machine promoting Democratic candidates.

Tuesday's hearing quickly became contentious as Republican lawmakers assailed the organization as more a political advocacy organization that wastes federal money than a health care group that deserves to receive taxpayer dollars.

It's not October yet, but we can all be pleasantly freaked out by this video of a supposed ghost going HAM all over this quaint Irish home.

Ashy Murphy posted this video and the one below to her Facebook page a couple days ago. Both videos seem to show her standing in the corner of her kitchen while the lampshade freaks out, the bread box opens and a cabinet door swings wide.

But the kicker is this nonsense:

I mean, we don't believe in ghosts or anything, or are at the very least highly skeptical. And all of these things that happen seem pretty easy to reproduce with string and a buddy.

Still, though. This is one of the most compelling pieces purportedly capturing ghost activity that we've seen in a while.

When Special Agent-in-training Clarice Starling found the serial killer she'd been searching for, Buffalo Bill, she probably had no time to appreciate the multi-storied, rural Victorian home where he kept victims trapped in a subterranean well. Well now's your chance!

Retired couple Scott and Barbara Lloyd are now selling that piece of movie history, even though it doesn't include all the facets mentioned in the movie.

Clarice Starling, the FBI cadet played by Jodie Foster, tracks down the former patient of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, in Ohio in the movie. But this home is in Western Pennsylvania in the village of Layton in Fayette County.

The house also doesn't have a deep dry well for taking people captive like the one created in a sound stage in the film. Rather, the three-story 1910 home features four bedrooms, a four-car garage and an asking price of $300,000, according to a listing posted Saturday on Realtor.com.

You can see that house in action right here, and then decide whether you'd like to attend an open house. You can probably leave your night vision goggles at home.

I opened the front door and heard what sounded like wings… I kind of flipped sh*t. Long story short We got them all out safely. There was a lot of cleanup involved, but all of the birds are fine. We think they got in through the chimney since last summer we thought we could hear birds chirping.

So it’s probably not an evil curse or omen, but he if he comes home to find plague of locusts in the next few days, it might be time to call a priest.